Promises, Promises: Essays On Psychoanalysis And Literature - Softcover

Phillips, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465056784 ISBN 13: 9780465056781

Publisher: Basic Books, 2002

Synopsis

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings the two gifts to bear upon each other, reaching far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders.

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About the Author

Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored Monogamy On Flirtation Terror and Experts Darwin's Worms Promises, Promises and Houdini's Box.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465056784
• ISBN 13: 9780465056781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394